If I may ask, what is it with O/S developers naming systems after foods of a sweet nature? Fro-yo, Honeycomb, now Mango? Not that I am complaining, sweet things are the best and all the gadets coming out these days are some sweet pieces of tech!
So there is lots of buzz over the new windows phone coming out with a brand new O/S, code name Mango. Supposidly this phone has tons of new updates and features and tons of BING. According to many a leak, this has a hardware excelerated browser and HTML5 support. Microsoft also hopes this phone will appeal to the global audience with better language support, focusing mainly on non-latin scripts (chinese, japanese, korean.. etc.) As far as Bing goes, it will go beyond just being a browser platform. It will have the new Bing Vision and Bing Audio, these applications are also tied to a Microsoft store for your various searches.
I feel that Microsoft is following in Apples foot steps with the ‘one stop shopping’ basically. Whether or not it works remains to be seen, word has it while mango does great with multitasking its on its own programs but the introduction of third party apps messes with the flow. This issue has already been addressed and resolved by other systems, will that be the Mango’s great downfall? It remains to be seen. Let’s hope for Microsoft stock sake that the Mango isn’t too late to the party to make an impact. Although if it is too late, Microsoft always has Skype!
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